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by Jim Winstead Jr.

blo.gs has been acquired by yahoo!

the sale of blo.gs has been completed, and i'm proud to announce that yahoo! has acquired the service. as of right now, give or take a few minutes, yahoo! is running blo.gs.

this is the sort of good home that i was looking for — yahoo! obviously has the resources to run and improve blo.gs in pace with the incredible growth of blogs (and syndication in general), and in talking with them it was also clear that we had some of the same vision for the future of the service and the ping/notification infrastructure.

for users of the website and the cloud interface, nothing much is changing. the service will continue to be completely open, and both yahoo! and i hope you continue to use it and help it grow.

even though i’ll no longer be operating blo.gs, i'm not going to disappear from the community. i’m still very interested in blogging and syndication, and believe that blo.gs will continue to have a major impact as a key player in the evolving ping and blogging infrastructure.

some people have asked about the privacy policy during the transition. yahoo! is keeping the blo.gs privacy policy. the data collected on blo.gs will continue to be subject to that privacy policy and you will be given the opportunity to consent to future changes.

more: some thanks for those who made this all happen.

» Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 2:26pm » blo.gs, business, syndication, blogging » 47 comments, add yours
« Sunday, June 12, 2005 @ 10:21am • thanks »

Comments

woot! congrats!

» Matt (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 2:46pm

Good to hear! I have to admit I was fearing a transfer the likes of another pinging service's (coughblogrollingcough), but I have the utmost confidence in Yahoo! Now I can breathe a sigh of relief - I won't have to recode my blogroll (which now uses blo.gs xml feeds) for the second time in a year! yipee!

» geeky (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 3:16pm

Jim Winstead just announced Yahoo! has purchased blo.gs. The cloud interface will still be available for general use. What does this mean? Yahoo! now has a ping beacon that is already built-in to most weblog software as well as a database of blog posts from the past few years. The cloud technology allows Yahoo! to easily share content update notifications inside and outside the firewall, allowing for easy sharing between blo.gs and Yahoo! Search for example. Jim originally planned on pulling the cloud interface offline at the end of last year and it is good to see the continuation of...

» Niall Kennedy's Weblog (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 3:23pm

What geeky said. Sounds like an excellent match, congratulations!

» Simon Willison (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 3:23pm

JeremY! made the announcement that Yahoo! was the mystery buyer of blo.gs. Jim has also posted his thoughts on the deal. I’m rather surprised by this, but I feel like I shouldn’t be.

...

» Joseph Scott's Blog (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 3:25pm

Jim Winstead tells the sale of blo.gs has been completed, and i'm proud to announce that yahoo! has acquired the service. as of right now, give or take a few minutes, yahoo! is running blo.gs. this is the sort of good home that i was looking for — yahoo! obviously has the resources to run and improve blo.gs in pace with the incredible growth of blogs (and syndication in general), and in talking with them it was also clear that...

» Ask Bj (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 3:31pm

Put this one in the "boy I sure didn't see that one coming" category. Check out their announcement at blo.gs news. welcome yahoo blo.gs has been acquired by yahoo!. Be sure to read Jim Winstead's post about the news and if you are a cloud listener note that we've changed the cloud port and we now need to know your IP address. Also, yahoo! is keeping the blo.gs privacy policy....

» Professional-Lurker: Comments by an academic in cyberspace (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 4:01pm

La nouvelle du rachat du serveur de pings blo.gs

» pointblog.com (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 4:14pm

Jim has sold blo.gs to Yahoo!. the sale of blo.gs has been completed, and i'm proud to announce that yahoo! has acquired the service. as of right now, give or take a few minutes, yahoo! is running blo.gs.this is the...

» Jacques Marneweck's Blog (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 4:29pm

Jim, not that you're taking tech support requests anymore, but I seemed to have lost my ability to figure out new/old blogs in the firefox pane view. It used to track blogs that I had already seen by visited link color, but now they just show up as all new every time I open the sidebar tab.

» Matt (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 4:53pm

Congrats I'm glad it was Yahoo since it wasn't me. I wish that I could have bought it. My stock isn't worth like Yahoo and Yahoo has their MoJo back. Congrats Jim.

Jim what I like about you is that you were always up front with me when I inquired to buy blo.gs and you subscribed to the 'say what you mean and you do what you say' views during our discussions - hopefully others will do the same when they bring on partners.

» John Furrier (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 5:01pm

Congrats Jim! Excellent. What's next?

» John Robb » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 5:14pm

Hey, Jim -- any chance you'd disclose a ballpark figure for what Yahoo! paid for blo.gs?

» Dossy (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 6:19pm

no.

» jim (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 6:29pm

For my own curiousity -- are you choosing not to? (I assume so.) Are you contractually forbidden from doing so? (I also assume so.)

The reason I was hoping there'd be some ballpark figure is to get a post-bubble valuation of what a web property like blo.gs is worth these days.

Thanks anyway, and good luck with whatever you take on, next.

» Dossy (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 6:48pm

Couple of interesting announcements on the infrastructure and services front at Yahoo today. Jim Winstead (founder / operator of blo.gs) writes: the sale of blo.gs has been completed, and i’m proud to announce that yahoo! has acquired the serv...

» Ho John Lee's Weblog (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 7:52pm

in the wonderful world of weblog infrastructure. One of the best services out there, blo.gs, has been acquired by Yahoo! as of today. The service blo.gs provides has largely been eclipsed by the buzz around RSS, but it's just as valuable. I like RSS for the quick access it gives you to information from multiple sources, but weblogs aren't just about the information - and that's where blo.gs (and BlogTracker before it) come in. Weblogs are a much richer environment than any RSS feed can convey - and only by going to the sites themselves can you really capture that....

» mikel.org | Michael Boyle's weblog (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 8:28pm

To reiterate: Yahoo is moving. Today also announces the Yahoo purchase of blo.gs. The "Y" graphic already appears in my address bar. They move fast. Kudos to Jim Winstead on his sale! What is blo.gs? A ping infrastructure. More...

» Get Real (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 8:41pm

Ah nice, good home too!

» Dave (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 8:56pm

Congrats jim, with your ideas and their pockets... i know i can only expect good things from this :)

» mariano (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 11:18pm

Jim Winstead schreibt, dass Yahoo! den Blog-Ping-Service blo.gs gekauft hat. Der Service soll wie bisher kostenlos betrieben werden.

» SISTRIX Suchmaschinen News (link) » Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 11:47pm

A while back Jim Winstead announced that blo.gs was up for sale and that anyone one interested in buying it should contact him.

» Neil's World (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 12:53am

I am really loving how Yahoo is buying things like Flickr and now Blo.gs and implementing more services that are feature-filled and make money that way, through upgrades and such, rather than through constant ads (old tactics). Hopefully they'll do the same with blo.gs for long-term.

» Lelia Katherine Thomas (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 2:46am

blo.gs has been acquired by yahoo!

"The sale of blo.gs has been completed, and i'm proud to announce that yahoo! has acquired the service. as of right now, give or take a few minutes, yahoo! is running blo.gs.

this is the sort of good home that...

» The-Search-Engines.com (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 3:33am

wibstr

congrats.

» DanHugo (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 3:38am

Guess it was yahoo!

» XeroCool (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 4:24am

Blog tracking venture blo.gs announced it was being acquired by Yahoo. The service claims to track about nine million blogs at the behest of about 12,000 users. Separately, Yahoo announced it was buying internet telephony firm Dialpad. The services of both firms will continue under Yahoo largely unchanged, except Dialpad's calling card product will be discontinued....

» MarketingVOX (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 5:36am

Congrats

Yahoo's getting it's mojo back in the last several months.

» macewan (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 6:18am

http://blo.gs/news.phpIt seems to me that flickr & blo.gs would have been right up Googles sl* ...

» macewan (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 6:19am

A while back, I noted that blo.gs was up for sale. More recently, there was a notice that a buyer had been found, but the identity of the buyer remained secret for a while. Now we know who it was. I'd say that the service is in good hands. ...

» geek ramblings (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 6:23am

Jim Winstead, kein Unbekannter in der PHP-Szene (z.B: hat er das Webinterface f

» Neues f (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 7:47am

welcome yahoo blo.gs has been acquired by yahoo!. Be sure to read Jim Winstead’s post about the news and if you are a cloud listener note that we’ve changed the cloud port and we now need to know your IP address. Also, yahoo! is keeping th...

» Tech News Online (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 7:59am

Congratulations! We wish you all the best after this friendly takeover!

» theglobalchinese (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 8:48am

Trained Monkey: blo.gs has been acquired by yahoo: The sale of blo.gs has been completed, and i'm proud to announce that yahoo! has acquired the service. as of right now, give or take a few minutes, yahoo! is running blo.gs.

» BizBlogs (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 9:02am

cripes, way to go Jim, quite the sellout.

» albert » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 9:09am

um, i guess congrats are an order.

» shannon (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 9:25am

the blogosphere is getting hot. Google will not let Yahoo! lead the way. Let's see what/who will be acquired by Google

» Jalansutera (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 9:53am

Holy crap! Yay!

» Dan S. (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 10:08am

One month ago, I made a wild guess that BROG, The (We)blog Research on Genre Project, might be the "cool" buyer of blo.gs. Yesterday, it turned out to be Yahoo!. I prove myself a bad predictor but also a naive...

» TIMELINE -- Dan Li's Blog (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 12:40pm

Let me get my pencil out.... myinfopage.com Darn. We were hoping to get the users. Congratulations, I guess hard work does pay off. Nice marriage.

I guess my email handle is going to change again. horahora.geo.gs@yahoo.com LOL

» David Barrett (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 12:44pm

Great news - look forward to many enhancements!

» A. Seo (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 3:27pm

Congratulations! That's a great accomplishment!

» Ben Padnos (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 3:39pm

How much money (stock)? C'mon everyone wants to know....

» Jay Fowler (link) » Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 3:41pm

Jim:

Congratulations. You've worked hard and the effort clearly shows. Please accept our best wishes in your many efforts to come.

Brian Humphrey Public Information Officer Los Angeles Fire Department

» LAFD News & Information (link) » Thursday, June 16, 2005 @ 9:43am

Jim Winstead Jr. on Yahoo!'s acquisition of blo.gs

» Virtuelvis (link) » Friday, June 17, 2005 @ 4:05am

blo.gs has been acquired by Yahoo. www.blo.gs is a directory of recently updated weblogs and tools for tracking interesting weblogs. More info @ Trained Monkey...

» Dr.Subrahmanyam Karuturi (link) » Monday, June 20, 2005 @ 2:15am

Yahoo! has acquired bl.ogs the blog tracking service developed by software engineer jim winstead jr....

» B.L. Ochman's weblog - Internet strategy, marketing, public relations, politics (link) » Monday, June 20, 2005 @ 4:59pm

I wonder if they are going to integrate it into the 360 service? I haven't been a blogger long, but I like blo.gs. Glad to see Yahoo! fighting back!

» Irvin Owens Jr (link) » Friday, June 24, 2005 @ 9:48am

Can't wait to see a nice tight integration with 360, Flickr, MyWeb and blo.gs.

» Lionel Douglas (link) » Friday, July 1, 2005 @ 3:30pm

Nice, congrats! I would like to know how much you earned from yahoo ;).. very short and nice domain + yahoo = $$$ - :) FunPics Blog

» Mike (link) » Thursday, July 21, 2005 @ 3:13am

Blo.gs wurde laut den Betreiber Jim Winstead an Yahoo weiterverkauft. Das Projekt stand schon seit Anfang März zum Verkauf und hat jetzt einen Käufer gefunden. Jim scheint erfreut zu sein über diesen Verkauf, da er davon ausgeht, dass sein Projekt v...

» Webmaster-Verzeichnis Blog (link) » Thursday, July 21, 2005 @ 5:11pm

Congrats on the sale. I'm new to the blo.gs community and I'm looking forward to seeing how blo.gs will grow and evolve now that Yahoo! is in charge. Best of luck for the future of blo.gs.

» Domain Blog (link) » Monday, October 17, 2005 @ 2:04am

Nice. Glad to here this.The future for www.blo.gs looks great

» Roy (link) » Sunday, November 6, 2005 @ 7:49am

Sounds great! If a billion dollar corporation wanted to purchase a site of mine, I would be extremely happy to say the least.

» some_young_guy (link) » Monday, November 21, 2005 @ 3:26pm

Now that search has been disabled for ... weeks? Months? ... what are we supposed to do when we want to add a new weblog to our lists?

Is there a schedule for fixing this?

What's really going on here? The situation is causing me a significant problem with my web page, because I rely on the blo.gs information.

Somebody please let us know what's going on!

» Ralph (link) » Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 7:08am

Great, Yahoo is using all now, and what are your next step?:-))

» Heinz (link) » Monday, December 12, 2005 @ 12:40pm

Hopefully they'll do the same with blo.gs for long-term

» derryl (link) » Friday, December 16, 2005 @ 6:42am

I totally agree with what you're saying. I wish more people felt this way and took the time to express themselves. Keep up the great work.

William Taggert http://www.domainsearcharchive.com

» William Taggert (link) » Sunday, January 22, 2006 @ 6:25am

Congrats :)

» JS (link) » Wednesday, January 25, 2006 @ 1:08pm

Ah nice, good home too! :)

» shopper (link) » Thursday, January 26, 2006 @ 6:12am

greetings and good luck for the new projects :-)

» vladimir (link) » Wednesday, February 22, 2006 @ 4:25pm

wow this is great for exotic domain names

» Paul (link) » Tuesday, March 21, 2006 @ 9:28pm

Started a new blog Fuzzuck.com and saw blo.gs/ping.php in the referrer stats and followed the links here. Belated congrats on the sale.

» Fuzzuck (link) » Sunday, March 26, 2006 @ 11:17pm

congrats on the sale! I'm seeing blo.gs spiders on my blogs all the time. Like other sites yahoo bought it has become more popular now and it's a great free service

» Mike (link) » Sunday, June 18, 2006 @ 4:58am

Congrats, and i will keep an eye on the new home :)

» Hans (link) » Sunday, July 23, 2006 @ 12:36am

Is there a schedule for fixing this?

» gold (link) » Saturday, November 11, 2006 @ 5:46pm

Congratulations on your transaction! It has to be very Satisfying!

» jim (link) » Tuesday, November 14, 2006 @ 5:22am

Hi,

Thats great news !

When is the bounce back happening and can we expect any new features to add.

» Rocky (link) » Wednesday, October 24, 2007 @ 5:18am

Hi,

I'm new to blogging and followed the link to blo.gs from an article on blogging. Most of the recommended resources are no longer online, so I felt happy to see that this service still exists. I use a non-standard blog on my site and wanted to test if it works with services which use standard technologies. So far I've found it does, so I'm happy with my software, and well, belated congrats to rhe founder of this service and to Yahoo for keeping the flame alive.

» Anthony (link) » Tuesday, January 29, 2008 @ 7:00pm

doesn't look like Yahoo has done much with the site?

» James » Saturday, June 21, 2008 @ 4:02pm

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